'THE ’FRISCO KID.'

Evening Star, Issue 22451, 23 September 1936, Page 2

'THE ’FRISCO KID.'

A thrilling tale of* the glamorous Barbary Coast days of old Sail Francisco, ‘ The ’Frisco Kid,’ with an allstar cast including James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ricardo Cortez, and Lili Damita, will be commenced at the St'. James on Friday. The picture is set in the colourful background of the early ’fifties, when the waterfront of the Golden Gate was a flaming panorama of gilded gambling halls and palaces of pleasure. Murder, arson, crimping, and robbery wore winked at by the authorities, who derived huge revenues in bribes from the denizens of the underworld. The characters are based on historic personages of the time who flocked to the city of gold from every port in the world—adventurers all, ready to risk their fortunes or their lives on the throw of a dice. Into this picturesque atmosphere comes a sailor, strong, purposeful, crude, ignorant, but a man of tremendous force and magnetic personality, who dares to fall in love with the most beautiful girl of San Francisco’s highest society. James Cagney and Margaret Lindsay, ns the two characters, carry on this strange romance in the midst of a series of thrilling episodes when the city is rocked by terrific battles between ' the vigilantes and the inhabitants of the coast.